Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A flat narrow thigh muscle, the longest of the human anatomy, crossing the front of the thigh obliquely from the hip to the inner side of the tibia.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The longest muscle of the human body, crossing the thigh obliquely in front. It arises from the anterior superior spine of the ilium, and is inserted into the top of the inner anterior surface of the tibia. It has been considered to be the chief muscle in producing the position of the tailor when at work (whence its name). It is usually present in mammals, though with various modifications. Also called iliopretibialis, sarticruræus, and tailor-muscle. See cut under
muscle .
Wiktionary
- n. anatomy A long thin muscle that runs down the length of the thigh; the longest muscle in the human body.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Anat.) A muscle of the thigh, called the
tailor's muscle , which arises from the hip bone and is inserted just below the knee. So named because its contraction was supposed to produce the position of the legs assumed by the tailor in sitting.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a muscle in the thigh that helps to rotate the leg into the sitting position assumed by a tailor; the longest muscle in the human body
Etymologies
- New Latin, from Late Latin sartor, tailor (from its producing the cross-legged position of a tailor at work), from sartus, past participle of sarcīre, to mend. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The spot where it goes under the sartorius is the one selected for the application of the ligature.”
“The sartorius muscle was cut and the femoral vessels dissected in such a way as to enable them to retain a considerable length.”
“Longitudinal section of the sartorius muscle of the frog.”
“It is found that A is independent of temperature, having, in the case of the sartorius muscle, always a value of about 1/6; B, which we may regard as the inverse of the "efficiency of maintaining a contraction", depends on the type of muscle, on temperature, on fatigue, and on many other factors.”
“In the study of the thermal changes the most consistent and valuable results have been obtained by utilizing the isometric contraction of the sartorius muscle of the frog.”
“In the muscle twitch of a frog's sartorius at 20°C the rise of temperature is not more than 0. 003°, and the time occupied in the earlier phases (as distinguished from the recovery process) is only a few hundredths of a second.”
“The sartorius muscle is a very suitable medium for this investigation, insofar as it is practically of uniform cross-section and consists of straight fibres running along its length.”
“The steps of the operation performed at the situation W, where the artery is about to pass beneath the sartorius, are these: an incision of sufficient length -- from two to three inches -- is to be made over the course of the vessel, so as to divide the skin and adipose membrane, and expose the fascia lata, through which the inner edge of the sartorius muscle becomes now readily discernible.”
“The sartorius muscle covered by a process of the fascia lata.”
“The femoral vessels, O N W, in the upper third of the thigh traverse a triangular space, the base of which is formed by Poupart's ligament, D, whilst the sides and apex are formed by the sartorius, Q, and adductor longus muscles, T, approaching each other.”
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